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Three more men have been arrested, and four others are being sought, in an investigation into Chicago-area "crash-and-grab" burglaries that netted the ring more than $2 million in merchandise, police said.

SPRINGFIELD -- Senate lawmakers introduced a plan Tuesday that would give Gov. Bruce Rauner the power to sweep nearly $580 million from special funds as he seeks to plug a budget hole that threatens child care services and prison workers' paychecks.

A Justice Department investigation will allege sweeping patterns of discrimination within the Ferguson, Mo., Police Department and at the municipal jail and court, a law enforcement official familiar with the report said Tuesday.

Federal authorities last week returned to the home of a Chicago-area teen accused of trying to travel to join the Islamic State and seized several cellphones and computer equipment apparently belonging to his siblings who are minors and have not been charged, the teen’s lawyer said...

The secretary of state's office is stepping up reminders to police to mail in DUI paperwork after a Tribune investigation that found bureaucratic errors regularly helped drunken drivers avoid mandatory license suspensions.

The University of Illinois' rescinded job offer to a professor and a controversy over a faculty blog at Chicago State University helped land the two schools on a 2014 "worst of" list for student and faculty free speech rights.

Rep. Aaron Schock billed taxpayers at least three times for a total of more than $14,000 in private air travel last fall, including for a trip to a Chicago Bears football game, The Associated Press has learned.

Along Waveland Avenue outside Wrigley Field, there are several steel beams that rise up to form a rough outline of where the left-field bleachers and the Cubs' new video board will be. Along Sheffield Avenue, in right field, there is nothing — just a view looking toward Lake Michigan.

Darius McPherson, who was held in contempt of court last November after refusing to testify at the trial of his brother, pleaded guilty Monday to criminal contempt of court as well as possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.

A DuPage County judge said Monday he will allow certain secretly recorded conversations to be admitted into evidence at the upcoming trial of a Schaumburg police officer accused of running a drug ring with fellow officers.

Electricians, pipefitters, carpenters and other union members opposed to making Wisconsin the 25th right-to-work state dominated more than 11 hours of testimony Monday on a fast-tracked proposal expected to pass the Legislature later in the week and be signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker.

Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz will speak at a tribute to the late Rev. Theodore Hesburgh.

The good news for die-hard Deadheads who got shut out of the Grateful Dead's reunion concerts July 3-5 at Soldier Field when tickets went on sale over the weekend: Tickets are showing up in droves on the secondary market.

In 2010-11, not only did Derrick Rose become the youngest most valuable player in NBA history and the Bulls advance to the Eastern Conference finals, but five players appeared in all 82 games and three others played in at least 80.

A federal appellate court banned an Elk Grove contractor from reopening his firm or opening a new sewer and water company after failing to pay fines for exposing employees to dangerous excavation hazards, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Monday.

Under the increased scrutiny and pressure of a one-on-one campaign against Mayor Rahm Emanuel, challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia on Monday dropped his monthslong opposition to allowing a Barack Obama presidential library to be built on city parkland.

Consumer complaints about debt again topped the list of concerns for Illinoisans last year. But identity theft, including rampant data breaches in recent years, was the No. 2 complaint and is garnering more attention, according to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

Faced with the loss of millions of dollars in funding, Chicago Public Schools on Monday said it has dropped plans to spurn a controversial standardized test, a decision quickly followed by calls from the teachers union and an influential parents group for students to boycott the exam.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s well-oiled fundraising operation will get to collect donations money without the constrictions of state limits in his race against Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, thanks to $110,000 an Emanuel-aligned political action committee spent on the mayor’s campaign.

A long-awaited project designed to more than double the 3-mph average speed of CTA buses traveling across the middle of downtown will be called Loop Link, and construction of bus-only lanes and rapid transit-style boarding stations is set to begin in two weeks, city officials were set to...

The Wrigleyville sports bar where White Sox great Minnie Minoso was a regular patron features a 'Wall of Minnie' with dozens of wood frames showing the Sox star batting, pitching and grinning in uniform.

The embattled new superintendent for Highland Park and Deerfield high schools has requested to be released from her contract, according to an email sent to staff of Township High School District 113 over the weekend.

Illinois hunters and outdoors enthusiasts see Gov. Bruce Rauner as a potential new ally in Springfield as they eye legislation this session that includes measures to ban the use of drones to track wildlife, allow silencers at gun ranges, expand coyote hunting to crossbows and resurrect a bobcat...

A Chicago-area woman convicted of killing a toddler by slamming him to the floor at a child care center tearfully said during the "48 Hours" news show Saturday that she was coerced into confessing to the crime after spending nearly 10 hours in an interrogation room.